Improvement in wagon end-gates



.' NITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

ANSON SOULES,-OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT m WAGQN END-GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,360, dated May 16,1876; application filed February 4, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANSON SOULEs, of the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan,have invented an Improved End-Board for Wagon-Boxes, of which thefollowing is the specification, reference being made to the accompanyingdrawing, forming a part of the specification,

and in which- Figure l is a front view of my improved end-board, andFig. 2 a rear view of the same.

My invention relates to an end-board for wagon-boxes, constructed of twoequal parts, in such a manner as to be instantly removed withouttrouble. The invention consists in the general construction andarrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described.

In the drawing, A A representthe outside of the end-hoard proper,divided into two equal parts at K. B is a plate of'iron of suitablethickness, having a slot, G, extending, in plate and board, unequaldistances from the dividing-line of the end-board. I represents athumb'screw, with head, extending unequal distances each way from thecenter of thumb-screw proper, to correspond with the unequal distancesof the slot Gr, so as not to pass through it except when the head of thescrew stands in a position correspondin g to the slot in the plate. Erepresents a burr-socket, fastened by screws to support piece D, havingathread cut through the center, fitting the thread of the thumb-screw. FF are hinges, fastening the A half of endboard to the support D, whichsupport D is shorter by several inches than the end board A A. G arecleats upon the outer side of boards A A, with holes J for rod, whenused in the upper box.

This board is intended to be used more particularly where grain iscarried loose in wagon-boxes, and unloaded by running out the back end,when the lower end-board is removed, by elevating the forward wheels,where a top box is used.

The top box is usually, say, ten inches wide, and its end-board of acorresponding width. The bottom box is usually, say, sixteen incheswide, and its end-board of a corresponding width. These end-boards arereversed for the drawing of grain, and the upper narrow endboard isplaced in the end of the wide-bottom box; and the wide bottom end-board(which is made after the usual plan) is placed in the end of the narrowtop box, and consequently extends as far below the top box as its widthis V greater, so that a rod passing through the top of the bottomside-board will pass through the bottom of the upper and wide end-board,and a rod passing through the upper box will pass through the top partof the'same end- I am aware that an end-board having a support like D(upon the outside,divided at an unequal distance, held to place "bystaple and hook at or near the end opposite thehinges, with cleats uponthe inside) has been patented March 22, 1870, by 0. H. Oomstock. Anend-board so-constructed I disclaim any desire to secure patented.

If I desire to remove the lower end-board without removing the upperboard or rods, I turn thumb-screw I so its head will pass through slotG, then; by swinging the A half of end-board out from the center, itshortens the same sufficiently to allow it to pass out from between thecleats of the side-boards which hold it in place.

What I claim to have invented and desire patented isp The combination,with an end-board for wagons composed of two equal parts, A A, havingsupport D on the inside, and cleats G on the outside, of the slottedplate B, burrsocket E, and thumbscrew I, the several parts constructedandarranged to'operate in the manner substantially as and for thepurpose specified. Y

' ANSON SOULES.

Witnesses:

EDWIN A. BURLINGAME, W. J. STUART.

